2019 Seminars

Object Oriented Data Analysis
Date: Friday, May 3, 2019
Speaker: J.S. Marron
Affiliation: Department of Statistics and Operations Research – University of North Carolina

Isolating Bias in Association Indices
Date: Friday, April 26, 2019
Speaker: Charles Weko
Affiliation: Headquarters, Department of the Army

Copula-based Semiparametric Method for Bivariate Data under General Interval Censoring
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Speaker: Ying Ding
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics – University of Pittsburgh

On dual model-free variable selection with two groups of variables
Date: Friday, April 12, 2019
Speaker: Yuexiao Dong
Affiliation: Department of Statistical Science – Temple University

Multivariate Ranks and Quantiles using Optimal Transportation and Applications to Statistics
Date: Friday, April 5, 2019
Speaker: Bodhisattva Sen
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – Columbia University

A Predictive Time-to-Event Modeling Approach with Longitudinal Measurements and Missing Data
Date: Friday, March 29, 2019
Speaker: Cheng Yong Tang
Affiliation: Department of Statistical Science – Temple University

Feature extraction for multivariate and Hilbert-space valued data
Date: Friday, March 22, 2019
Speaker: Wolfgang Polonik
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – University of California at Davis

Sparse Sliced Inverse Regression Via Lasso
Date: Friday, March 8, 2019
Speaker: Zhigen Zhao
Affiliation: Department of Statistical Science – Temple University

Total Variation Smoothed Regression for Spatial and Temporal Data
Date: Friday, March 1, 2019
Speaker: Haochang Shou
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics – University of Pennsylvania

Adaptive Bayesian Spectral Analysis of High-dimensional Nonstationary Time Series
Date: Friday, February 22, 2019
Speaker: Zeda Li
Affiliation: Department of Information Systems and Statistics – Baruch College, City University of New York

Confidence distribution and a likelihood-free approximate computing method with statistical guarantees
Date: Friday, February 15, 2019
Speaker: Min-ge Xie
Affiliation: Department of Statistics and Biostatistics – Rutgers University

Network analysis for Time Series data
Date: Friday, February 8, 2019
Speaker: Brandon Park
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – George Mason University

Multiple Breakpoint Detection: Mixing Documented and Undocumented Changepoints
Date: Friday, February 1, 2019
Speaker: Robert Lund
Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences – Clemson University

Defining and addressing dependent observation schemes in life history studies
Date: Friday, November 22, 2019
Speaker: Richard Cook
Affiliation: Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science – University of Waterloo

Robust Divergence Based Inference for Finite Mixture Regression
Date: Friday, November 15, 2019
Speaker: Lei Li
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – George Mason University

Uncertainty Quantification and Bayesian Model Calibration Applied to Stochastic Systems
Date: Friday, November 8, 2019
Speaker: David Higdon
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – Virginia Tech

An Optimal Semiparametric Method for Two-Group Classification
Date: Friday, November 1, 2019
Speaker: Seungchul Baek
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics – University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Optimal EMG Placement for a Robotic Prosthesis Controller with Sequential Adaptive Functional Estimation (SAFE)
Date: Friday, October 25, 2019
Speaker: Jon Stallrich
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – North Carolina State University

Priors for Genotyping Polyploids
Date: Friday, October 18, 2019
Speaker: David Gerard
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics – American University

Stochastic Functional Linear Models for Gene-based Association Analysis of Quantitative Traits in Longitudinal Studies
Date: Friday, October 11, 2019
Speaker: Ruzong Fan
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Biomathematics – Georgetown University Medical Center

Nonlinear and additive principal component analysis for functional data
Date: Friday, October 4, 2019
Speaker: Jun Song
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics – University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Limit theorems for out-of-sample extensions of spectral graph embeddings
Date: Friday, September 27, 2019
Speaker: Keith Levin
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – University of Michigan

Bias in Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials
Date: Friday, September 20, 2019
Speaker: Diane Uschner
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics – George Washington University

Structured Shrinkage Priors
Date: Friday, September 13, 2019
Speaker: Maryclare Griffin
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics – University of Massachusetts Amherst

Analyzing GPS data using density ranking
Date: Friday, September 6, 2019
Speaker: Yen-Chi Chen
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – University of Washington